Fawlty Towers Revival Feat. John Cleese and Daughter

[eJm]

May 19, 2023 15:30:35 GMT -5 The Dark Order Inferno said:

Speaking of John Cleese tarnishing his legacy, he's making a stage version of Life of Brian next year, without Eric Idle's involvement or the Crucifixion scene. Funny how certain jokes he's okay with cutting so not to offend a certain audience, the same material that audience had been trying to censor for decades.

Idle confirmed it on his Twitter today.

Life of Brian without “Always look on the Bright Side of Life” might as well not exist. It’s the most referenced thing about it.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Feb 7, 2023 14:14:09 GMT -5 Red Mage Riot said:

Feb 7, 2023 14:12:03 GMT -5 Gecko said:

'How X navigates the modern world' is a phrase associated with all the popular and successful revivals.

Let's have a think. There'll be an episode where the wifi doesn't work properly, one about having to provide vegetarian or vegan options where he just grabs stuff from a garden, one where he doesn't know how to work his mobile, something about health and safety...

Something about him having to scramble to avoid being "cancelled" after he says something terrible, probably about the Germans.

It won't be Germans. It will be trans people.

[wildojinx]

Feb 7, 2023 14:12:03 GMT -5 Gecko said:

one about having to provide vegetarian or vegan options where he just grabs stuff from a garden.

That actually sounds like a funny plot, as long as Basil is shown to be in the wrong for doing it. Heck, I could see the original show doing that.

[thechase]

Nothing will be cut from the new Life of Bryan after all

The Monty Python crew always looked on the bright side of life when it came to its classic film parody, Life of Brian.

But Monty Python star John Cleese insists he never said that he would remove a politically incorrect scene from a stage adaptation of Life of Brian, even though the film’s 1979 sensibilities will not draw quite the laughs it once did, owing to the rise of trans issues awareness.

Cleese claims it was “misreported” that he was planning to cut the “Loretta” scene for an upcoming stage adaptation of the religious satire film. Instead, he said he has “no intention” of removing it.

deadline.com/2023/05/monty-python-star-john-cleese-says-life-of-brian-scene-wont-be-cut-despite-modern-sensitivites-1235382058/

[eJm]

I mean, he rants about political sensibilities now but Harrowgate, UK was famous for banning the whole movie for decades along with many 18+ ratings across the rest of the country, we here in Ireland banning it for almost a decade so...I don't know, man, maybe there was some "wokeness" in the water in the late 70s or something.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

So he's put his foot down to keep transphobia over the protests of the crew, but the crucifixion remains cut despite being FAR more memorable.

Selective free speech, y'all. 'I WON'T BE CENSORED UNLESS IT OFFENDS THE PEOPLE MOST LIKE ME, THEN I CAN BE CENSORED!'